Early-life adverse events or childhood adversities (CAs) are stressors and harmful
experiences severely impacting on a child's wellbeing and development. Examples of CAs …

Childhood maltreatment elevates risk for antisocial behavior, depression, and other
problems over the life span, but a subset of maltreated individuals avoids maladaptive …

Emerging evidence suggests that partially distinct mechanisms may underlie the association
between different dimensions of early life adversity (ELA) and psychopathology in children …

Recent neurodevelopmental and evolutionary theories offer strong theoretical rationales
and some empirical evidence to support the importance of specific dimensions of early …

Individuals who experience early adversity, such as child maltreatment, are at heightened
risk for a broad array of social and health difficulties. However, little is known about how this …

Early life adversity can have a significant long-term impact with implications for the
emergence of psychopathology. Disruption to mother-infant interactions is a form of early life …

Exposure to childhood adversity is common and associated with a host of negative
developmental outcomes. The most common approach used to examine the consequences …

Postnatal development of the brain is characterized by sensitive windows during which,
local circuitry are drastically reshaped by life experiences. These critical periods (CPs) occur …

Background Adaptation is key to survival. An organism must adapt to environmental
challenges in order to be able to thrive in the environment in which they find themselves …